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iFixit Lauds Apple's New Self Service Repair Program, Calls It a 'Remarkable Concession'

dlopan said:
Don't celebrate yet. Wait until the pricing for parts and tools comes out. I can hardly wait for the
screams to start.
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You can use cheaper alternative from 3rd party parts, there are many brands in China doing parts. If price is concerns to you.
 
This is interesting. It means they're designing products to be easier to repair if the average person can just buy a kit.
 
Xiaojohn said:
And RAM
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I think RAM's probably a goner, considering the Apple Silicon SoC.

But I woke this morning to my alarm clock, an iPhone 3GS I kept alive by replacing its battery a year or so ago. I also replaced its screen maybe eight years ago after it took a fall. The glass was okay, miraculously, but the LCD started losing rows.

That's about as spudgerific as I'd care to be. Although I could stand to replace its home button.
 
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No doubt Apple is going to keep locking down even more the parts, and use this service as an excuse to justify it, because ‘we are offering this parts freely’.
 
gerardnll said:
No doubt Apple is going to keep locking down even more the parts, and use this service as an excuse to justify it, because ‘we are offering this parts freely’.
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Next step they will force Apple to accept OEM/3rd party parts!!!
 
Blackstick said:
Speaking as a former Mac Genius, this is awesome news, but people without electronic repair experience should be careful what they wish for. Fixing some of these mobile devices is very tricky, much more so than a Mac where the space to work is comparably "luxurious."

If you're not comfortable with nylon probe tools (spudger or what Apple calls a "black stick"), ZIF connectors, pentalobe screws and really small, fragile ribbon cables... have someone else fix your expensive Apple product for the same money. Much less headache.
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Thanks Captain MacGenius.
 
I don't want to go anywhere near attempting to repair my iPhone. I will leave that to Apple. My Macbook Pro on the other hand, I will happily swap a battery.
 
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randfee2 said:
Apple knows what’s coming, laws will enforce this and more, so they didn’t want to get caught with their pants down but instead introduce something before the laws arrive. That will make it look like they’ve been on the right track all along.

Good, but kind of hypocritical, In the end many will forget that it was due to the Louis Rossmann’s of the world that things changed, many forum members will claim here and now that Apple is brilliant and only applaud Apple and think their wisdom got us this, the same people that argued that some will never sell parts because it’s economically stupid. I don’t care about these type of disciples.

Most importantly: if it happens it will be a good thing. Pricing will be super interesting and potentially a rip-off, we’ll see!

Oh and by the way, this doesn’t mean that their products become more repair friendly, they might just claim people lack the skill if they complain about unnecessary degree of fiddling. But maybe it’ll create more pressure for actually good repassier friendly design too ?

It’s a start and I like the direction this is going. I hope sustainability and longevity of products might also lead to upgradable designs again, I have hope and i wish Apple had more courage in this regard. I’m confident the company’s reputation would go through the roof if they’d ACTUALLY acted boldly on sustainability, I’m willing to bet they’d make even more money than they do now if they didn’t glue but screw and made SSDs upgradable etc.
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Oh yeah, I totally agree, I would definitely buy more Apple products, and more often, if they were more upgradeable and repairable. I keep looking at those SSD and RAM pre-upgrade prices, and lack of upgradeability and repairability, and keep putting off my purchases out of disgust, and quite frankly, out of deciding I have other more pressing things I could do with all those thousands of dollars for a device that's going to either be out of date, have a full SSD, or need a ridiculously expensive repair due to one part broken, but soldered and glued and SOC'ed to many other expensive components.
 
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So how does a home user calibrate the display? I've already read on here that it takes a special tool to calibrate them.
 
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